Joe: I have 4 Optibeam products in the air. Do as the "book" says and hope. Mine rode out Isabel some years ago. I'm dead center at 8 am Sunday according to the forecast.....doubt anything will survi
Here on MD Eastern Shore I pointed the beams as I always do: Short path to JA (335) for the stack and HZ (50) for the little C3e. Wind during the storm was mostly out of the NE, and swung around to N
Makes sense. The interaction is normally between the 40 beam and 15. 73 bob de w9ge _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing l
NO NO NO! You must use a rare DX QSL card that absolutely cannot be replaced by any means. To do otherwise your tower may fail in the wind, antennas will have no front to back and your coax will rot
Allen: You Sir are a true believer and my hat is off to you. 73 bob de w9ge _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
Interesting stuff. My tale involves much shorter towers. I have a 40 beam at 95 feet on the top of one and a WARC yagi at 80 feet at the top of the other tower. I have a 200 acre field just beyond th
John: The extra ten foot section of 45 will be MUCH stronger than any mast you can put up there......I don't have the Dave Leeson book handy as I write this, but memory tells me the 45 section will b
Tom: I'll provide a contrary opinion. If you can put up a delta loop, fed 1/4 wave down from the apex you might be surprised at how it might work, and you can avoid radials if they are not in the car
DEET won't protect you against ticks! Don't rely on it. And deer are not the largest carrier of ticks, mice are. Any time you are walking in grass no higher than your ankles you are susceptible to pi
What is below is probably the absolute worst, or most misguided recommendation ever seen on this reflector. No way I would leave 50 foot of 25 free standing much less want to climb it, even if it had
"Call any of your local industrial plumbing supply stores, they should be able to sell you a 20 foot length of black pipe." Yep and black pipe will only be about 85k psi short of the stated goal. Mig